Adrian Piper: Everything will be taken away: May 1 & 2

Everything will be taken away: Adrian Piper
Cooper Union (May 1) and NYU (May 2)

Don't just passively look at art - LOOK AT YOURSELF and BE ART.

TUESDAY, MAY 1 AND WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 are the only 2 days to get artist Adrian Piper’s henna text, Everything Will Be Taken Away. Applied directly on the forehead, in reverse, the temporary tattoo lasts about 10 days. Both a promise and a threat, it encourages reflection on memory and what we consider to be "everything."

BE PART of this seminal philosophical art performance, see yourself and the world differently, and meet new people - nothing strikes up a conversation more than wearing art on your head!

Tuesday, May 1, 11am – 7pm, Cooper Union
51 Astor Place (btw 3rd and 4th Ave). On the porch, moved indoors if bad weather.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 11am- 7pm, NYU
Steinhardt Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street (9th St. betw 3rd and 2nd Aves), Room 101 (Near the Astor stop on the 6 Train)

You can just show up at the sites, but first preference will be given to those that register at events@creativetive.org. Please send your name, email, date, and how you heard about the project.
Looking forward to reading you soon!


Things You Should Know:
* the henna should last about 10 days
* the text is written in reverse so it can be read in the reflection of a mirror
* participants may contribute to a daily blog and are required to keep a journal to record their thoughts during the project.
At the end of 1 year, performers will be asked to look at their journals and share with the artist their fresh reflections on the experience.

The Artist
Everything #10 is the tenth rendition of the ongoing series the Piper began in 2003, but the first on the body. The simple prose has been displayed in a variety of media including sandwich boards and on personal photographs that have been photocopied, printed and erased. Contingent upon the context and relationship to the audience, the sentence reveals new aspects of its potential meanings with each adaptation. The endurance and repetition of the phrase is crucial to the series and the relationship to Piper’s writings and philosophical work. A student and teacher of philosophy and meta-ethics, Piper often employs Hindu imagery and concepts.

Berlin-based Adrian Piper (born 1948, NY) is a first-generation conceptual artist whose work has consistently utilized representation, political dissonances, and discourses relating to ethnicity and gender.

Read More
Check out the article in Time Out and more about this project and the other 5 performances on our website.

http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2007/performance/piper.html